Batkhela
Sign in to saveBatkhela (, ) is a city, tehsil and the district headquarter of the Malakand District within the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. According to the 2017 Census of Pakistan, the population of Batkhela was recorded at 68,200. Batkhela is considered as one of the most popular business cities in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. A water canal that pours into a small dam in the Jabban area near Batkhela is the main source of electricity production here.
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Place details
- Locality
- بٹ خیلہ
- Region
- خیبر پختونخوا
- Country
- پاکستان
- Population
- 46,079
- Timezone
- Asia/Karachi
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Batkhela
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Lower Batkhela Canal (Nehar), Malakand Agency, KPK.JPG
- Settlement.imagesize
- 280px
- Settlement.image_caption
- Batkhela Canal flows through the city
- Settlement.mapsize
- 200px
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Malakand District (highlighted in yellow) within the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan.
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa#Pakistan
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location within Khyber Pakhtunkhwa##Location within Pakistan
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Malakand
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Tehsil
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Swat Rani Zai Tehsil
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 1001
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Official name
- Batkhela
- Country
- Pakistan
- Located in
- Malakand District
- Population
- 50688
- Area
- 1001
- Elevation
- 673
- Capital of
- Malakand District
- Official website
- www.nwfp.gov.pk
- Image
- P1000365 - Batkhela Bazaar (Off Day).JPG
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- native label
- Batkhela
- inception
- 1895-03-00
- Commons category
- Batkhela
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Batkhela (, ) is a city, tehsil and the district headquarter of the Malakand District within the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. According to the 2017 Census of Pakistan, the population of Batkhela was recorded at 68,200. Batkhela is considered as one of the most popular business cities in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. A water canal that pours into a small dam in the Jabban area near Batkhela is the main source of electricity production here.
Batkhela General Civil Headquarters Hospital is the main hospital of the district Malakand. Batkhela's main bazaar is more than 4.0 Kilometres long. Making it Asia's longest Bazar.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Batkhela” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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